Keys to Managing 20,000 Devices in One Year

The Rowan-Salisbury School District sure knows what it’s doing with MacBook Airs and it was very evident on Tuesday afternoon. Candace Salmon-Hosey, Clark Poole, and Andrew J. Smith of the North Carolina district explained how they successfully rolled out a one-to-one MacBook Air program for their district of 20,000 students and 2,000 staff.

They went through several categories of DOs and DON’T’s to help other schools roll out the most successful one-to-one initiative possible — and they should know, they rolled out 1,128 MacBook Airs to their teachers in one day! Here are the lessons that the Rowan-Salisbury School District passed on to us: